This is because I feel religious music, to Europeans, is one of the first forms of music they come in contact with – music that becomes the foundations for their beliefs and life. Having these foundations, my heart has returned to Europe recently, in a way. So hymns were the first “existing” music I ever played. There was a piano at my house and I was like “What is this?” I simply played when I felt like it and made original music.
You were able to play a keyboard even back then? My kindergarten was Catholic, and the teacher was not very good at playing the organ, so I did. My first musical memories go back to hymns during church. Well, I started becoming a “contest bandit” after the second grade of elementary school. Kanno, it is said that you won multiple awards at composition contests in your younger years. In this rare interview, Akihiro Tomita goes in-depth on the many projects of her career thus far. These descriptions are both accurate, as it speaks to the complex and multi-faceted nature of the sounds which she creates. Musicians who are familiar with her work often give polarized characterizations of Kanno as either being witch-like or extremely innocent. As a music producer, she has overseen the career of Maaya Sakamoto as well as providing music for Kyoko Koizumi, YUKI, and SMAP among others, while also producing scores for NHK’s TV novel Gochisosan (2013). Her latest work for Terror in Resonance (2014) was recorded in Iceland, mixed in England and mastered in New York, speaking volumes about the lengths she takes to find and create sound that accompanies her subject matter. She followed up with the soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop (1999) which utilized elements from funk, soul and jazz, as well as the digital soundscapes from the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002), and the music for Macross F (2008) which swept Japanese music charts. Her splendid orchestrations in combination with vocals, tribal, techno, and breakbeat elements were original to say the least, and garnered accolades from many throughout the Japanese music scene. The career of the producer who “changed the history of anime music” became widely recognized in 1994 with the score to Macross Plus. Anime has steadily grown in popularity since the ’90s, and Yoko Kanno is one of the most famous musicians working in the genre.
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